Cenk Uygur
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Coding Battle Of The Sexes: Who Is Better?
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August 10, 2017
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10:30Now PlayingWho’s better at codingMen or women? Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, and Kim Horcher the hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“The latest step in the ongoing conversation about the gender gap in tech came on Tuesday when Google announced that it had fired engineer James Damore for "perpetuating gender stereotypes" in an internal memo about the company's corporate culture. In discussing the lack of gender diversity in tech, Damore had written about supposed biological differences between men and women, and how those differences "may explain why we don't see equal representation of women in tech and leadership."
But, in fact, many of the first computer programmers and coders were women, explains Nathan Ensmenger, a professor and expert on the history of computing at Indiana University and author of The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise.
For example, in a recent paper, he cites the first written manual on computer programming, published in 1947. The guide described how "planners" would think about the problems they wanted the computer to solve, while "coders" would translate those ideas "into a form that the computer could understand." The work of coding was "low-status, largely invisible, and therefore generally performed by women.”
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Hosts: Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Kim Horcher
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